October 1, 2023

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Jude Law’s Riff Raff Amusement Hires Katie Sinclair as Head of Progress

Katie Sinclair has been named the new head of improvement at Riff Raff Entertainment, the advancement and manufacturing corporation co-launched by Oscar-nominated actor Jude Legislation and innovative spouse Ben Jackson.  

She joins from Blueprint Pics, exactly where her credits as a improvement executive involve Martin McDonagh’s approaching “Banshees of Inisherin,” which is witnessed as a big awards year participant and will display screen at each the Venice and Toronto Worldwide Movie Festivals “The Lovely Sport,” directed by Thea Sharrock and Andrew Haigh’s “Strangers,” which stars Andrew Scott,  Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell. Sinclair has worked on “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” for Sony 3000 and Netflix. She has been greatly involved in sourcing and shepherding Blueprint’s slate of function movie tasks. 

Prior to Blueprint, Sinclair worked for Rose Garnett and Eva Yates at BBC Film. She has beforehand labored in manufacturing and improvement for BBC Studios, Sugar Films, Disney and Lionsgate, as properly as generating award-winning brief films. 

Sinclair marks the 2nd major seek the services of at Riff Raff, which a short while ago brought on seasoned Stephen Fuss, a media veteran with best stints at Stargrove Shots and Ingenious Media, as CEO to aid the development of the tv and movie output enterprise.  

It also arrives after Riff Raff gained a multi-million dollar money injection from Calculus Capital, which include the Calculus Imaginative Content EIS Fund, which will provide overhead for crucial new hires and permit the enterprise to obtain and create a lot more initiatives. The organization suggests that funding, together with a to start with-appear deal with New Republic Photos inked in 2021, will enable Riff Raff receive extremely sought-right after product and attach top quality writers across equally sides of the Atlantic.

“I’m seriously enthusiastic to be joining Riff Raff at these a pivotal time, as the company develops and grows its previously really interesting slate of film and Television set tasks,” explained Sinclair. “I simply cannot hold out to start out doing work with Jude, Ben and Stephen, serving to make Riff Raff a dwelling for remarkable writers, directors and IP.” 

“We are absolutely thrilled to have Katie Sinclair sign up for our crew as head of improvement. As we expand and continue to build and develop new and enjoyable assignments throughout film and television, her great awareness, practical experience and taste is a excellent match and positive to be of substantial reward to us,” added Regulation, Jackson and Fuss on behalf of Riff Raff Entertainment. 

Sinclair officially starts her new situation in early September 2022.  

Law whose credits consist of “The Proficient Mr. Ripley,” “Captain Marvel” and “Sherlock Holmes,” co-established Riff Raff with Jackson in 2017. The company made the psychological drama, as very well as “True Factors,” a movie adaption of Deborah Kay Davies’ e book, “True Matters About Me,” which was at first optioned by Legislation and Jackson and directed by BAFTA Award-successful Harry Wootliff. It also has several sequence and films in various stages of improvement and manufacturing, including a Sharon Horgan-scripted contemporary comedy set in London, the political drama “Best of Enemies,” which will be published and directed by David O’Russell, and a major new Television set drama scripted by “Succession” and “Better Simply call Saul” author Jonathan Glatzer.